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The Effect of the Radius of Covalent Bond on Melting
Temperature of Organic Compounds

Ajeel F. A. Al-Zafeeri
The Public Authority For Applied Education And Training
The Higher Energy Institute Chemical Processes Dept. Kuwait

Abstract: - This paper presents a discussion of the effects of covalent radius value in producing new organic
compounds, the value of covalent bond radius will be changed either by increasing or decreasing and hence a
new organic compounds or new properties organic compounds will be created. It is found that the value of the
covalent radius has really considerable effects on changing organic compounds properties such as melting point
temperature.

Keywords: - Organic Compounds, Covalent Radius, Chemical Bonds, Organic Compounds Properties,
Thermodynamics.

I. INTRODUCTION
The stability of a covalent bond results from a large quantity of electron density in the bonding region,
the space between the two nuclei. In the bonding region, the electrons are nearly close to both nuclei, resulting
in a lowering of the overall energy .The bonding electrons also mask the positive charges of the nuclei, so the
nuclei do not make repulsion for each other as much as they would otherwise. There is always an optimum
distance for the two bonded nuclei .If such nuclei are too far apart, their attraction for the bonding electrons is
diminished. If such nuclei are too close together, their electrostatic repulsion pushes them apart .The inter-
nuclear distance where attraction and repulsion are balanced, which also gave the minimum energy (the
strongest bond), is called the bond length. See fig.1, [9].

Fig. 1 bonding region between two atoms, [9].

Little of researches discussed the effects of covalent radius value in producing new organic compounds
properties, Chung C. et. al., in this work a series of organic ammonium ions were exchanged onto clay minerals
montmorillonite and hectorite . Thermal effects on these surface modified organic-inorganic complexes were
investigated by using the differential thermal analysis and heating-oscillating X-ray diffraction methods. The
researcher found that the organo-clay complexes were dehydrogenated at temperatures from 180 to 350 C~
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depending on the organic cation used .Following the dehydrogenation, hydrolysis was found that it can take
place leaving a layer of "carbon "on the clay surface. The "carbon "was then oxidized at a temperature of about
550C. Investigation of possible correlations between the boiling point, ionization potential, molecular structure
activation energy, dehydrogenation and basicity, and carbon atoms bond distances of the organic cations showed
that the geometric factors outweighed the acid, some chemical and electronic factors in determining the effect of
montmorillonite and hectorite toward the dehydrogenation of organic ions were exchanged on the surfaces of
these clay minerals, [2]. Nicholas J. Turro, exchanging the supramolecular organic photochemistry from soft-
matter hosts (micelles) and hard-matter hosts (porous solids) were discussed with an emphasis on how
noncovalent interactions, which are at the heart of supramolecular chemistry, can be systematically exploited to
control the catalytic and magnetic effects on the formation of covalent bonds from photochemically produced
pairs of radical, [3].
Steven S., et al. Discussed the solid-phase measurements which are typically made using solvent
extraction or thermal headspace analysis. The high temperatures and chemical solvents associated with such
methods can modify the physical structure of polymeric materials and consequently affect mass transfer
characteristics .To measure solid-phase concentrations under conditions resembling those in which the material
would be installed in an indoor environment, a new technique for measuring volatile organic compounds
concentrations in vinyl flooring (VF) and similar materials were developed. A 0.09 m
2
section of new vinyl
flooring was punched randomly to produce approximately 2000.78-cm
2
disks .The disks were milled to a
powder at -140 C to simultaneously homogenize the material and reduce the diffusion path length without loss
of volatile organic compounds. volatile organic compounds were extracted from the vinyl flooring particles at
room temperature by fluidized bed desorption and by direct thermal desorption at elevated temperatures. The
volatile organic compounds in the extraction gas from fluidized bed desorption and direct thermal desorption
were collected on sorbent tubes and analyzed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry .Seven volatile
organic compounds emitted by vinyl flooring were quantified .Concentration measurements by fluidized bed
desorption ranged from 5.1 g-1 g vinyls flooring for n-hexadecane to 130 g -1g vinyls flooring for phenol .
Concentrations measured by direct thermal desorption were higher than concentrations measured by fluidized
bed desorption. Differences between fluidized beds desorption and direct thermal desorption results may be
explained using free-volume/dual-mobility sorption theory, [5].
B. M. Mikhailov, discussed the covalent radii of carbon in the sp
2
and sp and stated that their values are
ranging from 0.73 and 0.69 A, respectively, also the phenomenon of hyper conjugation of the first order ( , -
conjugation) really does not exist. Also the researcher found that the shortening of such single carbon-carbon
bond adjacent to a multiple bond is due not to the displacement of electrons by hyper conjugational (resonance-
mesomerism) mechanism, but it refers to an orbital effect: it is also found that a reduction in the covalent radii
of carbon with increase in the contribution of bonding orbitals of this type. The author found that in molecules
containing alternating multiple bonds the delocalization of -electrons and leveling out of lengths of bonds do
not occur. In such molecules the mesomeric (conjugation) effect (static effect of , conjugation) postulated
by resonance-mesomerism theory does not appear. The shortening of single bonds observed in molecules
containing alternating multiple bonds is due to an orbital effect, [1]. Nicholas J. Turro, Exemplars of
supramolecular organic photochemistry from soft-matter hosts (micelles) and hard-matter hosts (porous solids)
were discussed with an emphasis on how non-covalent interactions, which are at the heart of supramolecular
chemistry, can be systematically exploited to control the catalytic and magnetic effects on the formation of
covalent bonds from photochemically produced pairs of radicals.[10].
Methods and materials
Covalent radius in organic compounds has an important role in producing new properties for such
compounds; hence new compounds are resulted. Covalent radius variations in organic structures contributing in
producing new compounds. In this work a virtual model is constructed to show the effects of covalent radius in
properties of organic compounds.
Let us have the two different organic structures (figure 2).


R
2

R
1

90 .. 90
.


R
1
R
2



A B

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Fig. 2 Same organic compounds (A, and B) with same structure different covalent radii
From the two organic configurations it is clear that distance between the two sub atoms (colored in blue) is
differ from the first construction (A) and (B). In A the distance is equal to
2
1 1
2R D (1)
While in the second configuration the distance can be given as
2
2 2
2R D (2)

II. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Since R
1
is greater than R
2
then D
2
is less than D
1
. This difference in distance makes the properties of
same organic compounds different either in boiling point, melting point, tensile strength and other mechanical
properties, since the total length and width of the organic compounds will be differed. It is found that the
distances between the sub-atoms in the organic compounds affected by the covalent radius i.e as the covalent
radius increases the distance and the total length of the compound increase, and hence the properties of the
organic compound change. Melting points, boiling point, tensile strength of such organic compounds are
decrease as the length of the compound increases i.e. as D increases such that
[M,B,T]=[M0,B0,T0]-C(D) (3)
where
M: is the melting point temperature, B: is the boiling temperature, T: is the tensile strength of the
material. M0, B0, and T0: are the base values of the last properties respectively. C: is a constant, and D is the
distance between atoms in the organic compounds. Such relations can be represented as in figure (3).

Fig. (3) Melting point variation with the covalent radius change.

Fig.3 represents a demonstration for the properties of organic compounds as a relation with the atoms distance
(D), it is clear that as the distance (D) increases the value of melting point, and also by the same behavior
boiling point, and tensile strength of such compounds decrease.

III. CONCLUSION
The main conclusion can be drawn up from this discussion that to produce a new properties for organic
compounds having the same monomers and same structure is by changing up the covalent bond radius, this can
be made by changing up pressure, temperature, or any other parameter. This will produce some new properties
for organic compounds.
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